Top Tips For Enjoying The UFC

What is the UFC?

The UFC or Ultimate Fighting Championship is an American mixed martial arts promotion company which is based in Las Vegas. In the UFC contestants will use MMA (mixed martial arts) to combat each other. It is a full-contact sport that allows for a wide variety of fighting techniques and skills from a variety of other combat sports. You will often see competitors who have history and training in boxing, wrestling, karate, BJJ, and so on. 

In UFC fighting the rules allow the use of both striking and grappling techniques while standing and on the ground to beat their opponent. 

The UFC shook the world of combat sports when it first came into being and it is very different to both Wrestling and Boxing. Wrestling is more theatrical and pre-arranged, boxing is less theatrical and has more rules, as more of a niche. UFC MMA fighting has fewer rules, yet fighters are well known, especially the old timers who everyone knows. It combines a variety of styles and is therefore more flexible. However, it does still have rules, for example, a competitor cannot go biting his opponent, it is mixed martial arts after all, not snack time. 

Betting on the UFC. 

One thing many people enjoy doing is betting on the UFC. It is very popular and makes watching these competitions even more fun! There are so many betting tips for the UFC and there are plenty of online UFC betting sites which you can use to place your bets and find out more about how you can bet. 

The best thing you can do in UFC betting is to take advantage of experts. Most of the time we do not have the time to do extensive research on the fighters, so why not let someone else do it and you use their knowledge to your advantage when you place your bets. There are plenty of sites online where you can find this useful information. 

In the UFC you can bet on the moneyline, betting on who will win the bout, it doesn’t matter how they win, but as long as they do, you win your bet. You could bet under/ over odds, predicting how long you think the fight will go for, generally for a 3 round bout a line will be set at 1 ½ or 2 ½ rounds, for the bet pick if you think the fighter will go under or over that line. 

Then here is the ‘go the distance’ bet, for this you are betting on whether you think the UFC fight will go over the end of the final round or get stopped ealy. This is an ambitious but also easy bet type to make for UFC fighting. You can also bet on ‘method of victory’, if you have a prediction on how you think the fight will end. These are tough bets to win but are also a unique way to capitalize on a precise prediction. 

The Best UFC fighting style. 

If you are the type of person who would want to be on ‘method of victory’, you would also probably want to be fairly well versed in what the best type of UFC MMA fighting is. While there are many types of fighting used there are two clear top styles, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Wrestling. 

BJJ combined take downs with submissions as well as applicable defences, any kind of MMA style can only substitute part of what BBJ offers. 

If you have a fighter who has experience in both BJJ and Wrestling, you have a stellar fighter in the cage. 

How the UFC works. 

UFC fights are scored based on a ten-point must system. Three judges will score each round separately, giving 10 points to the winner or the round and 9 or less (sometimes 8 and rarely 7) basing it off of how dominant one fighter was in each round. Rounds can go 10-10 but this is very rare.